Notes

  1. Warren Commission Report, page 19 (hereafter cited as WCR 19)
  2. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (26 Volumes), Volume 2, pages 210-245 and Volume 7, page 531 (hereafter cited as 2H 210-245 and 7H531) (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  3. 2H 245-251 (Mrs Linnie Mae Randle)
  4. WCR 135
  5. 4H 249-278 (Lieutenant John Carl Day)
  6. 4H 266 (Lieutenant John Carl Day)
  7. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (26 Volumes), Commission Exhibit 729 (hereafter cited as CE 729)
  8. 7H 144 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  9. 7H 145 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  10. WCR 79
  11. 6H 268 (Deputy Sheriff Roger Dean Craig)
  12. 7H 46 (Sergeant Gerald Lynn Hill)
  13. 7H 65 (Sergeant Gerald Lynn Hill)
  14. 7H 289 (Detective John B Hicks)
  15. 7H 161 (Detective Richard M Sims)
  16. 7H 162 (Detective Richard M Sims)
  17. Sylvia Meagher: Accessories after the Fact, published by Vintage Books, New York, 1976; page 59
  18. 7H 103 (Detective Marvin Johnson)
  19. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (26 Volumes), Studebaker Exhibit G (hereafter cited as Studebaker G) (21H 647)
  20. 7H 104 (Detective Marvin Johnson)
  21. 7H 98 (Detective L D Montgomery). See also Studebaker J (Nos. 1,3 and 4 are plainly visible but No. 2 cannot be seen. Its location must be in the dark area immediately to the right of the dark-shaded box at top left)
  22. Richard B Trask: Pictures of the Pain, published by Yeoman Press, USA, 1994; page 552 - also 13H 105 (testimony of Ira Jefferson "Jack" Beers, Jr., Dallas Morning News)
  23. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (26 Volumes), Batchelor Exhibit No. 5002, page 29 of exhibit (DPD Personnel Assignments, November 1963) (19H 146)
  24. 7H 138 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  25. Studebaker C (21H 645)
  26. 7H 140 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  27. Studebaker F (21H 647)
  28. 7H 144 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  29. Ibid.
  30. 7H 145 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker) also Studebaker G (21H 647)
  31. 7H 149 (Detective Robert Lee Studebaker)
  32. 2H 210 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  33. 2H 222 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  34. WCR 604 (Report of Captain J.W. Fritz, Dallas Police Department), 621 (FBI report by SA James W Bookhout, 23rd November 1963) and 626 (Report of Inspector Thomas J Kelley, U.S. Secret Service). These apparently relate to the same interrogation/interview of Oswald at 10.25am on 23rd November 1963
  35. 3H 75-76 (Mrs Ruth Hyde Paine)
  36. 1H 68-69 (Mrs Marina Oswald)
  37. 2H 224 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  38. 2H 226 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  39. Ibid.
  40. 2H 210-211 (Preamble to Buell Wesley Frazier testimony)
  41. 2H 227 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  42. 2H 228 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  43. CE 2003, page 26 of exhibit (Affidavit of Frazier, 22nd November 1963) (23H 209)
  44. Physical measurements made by this paper's author. See also my article The Mannlicher- Carcano - a practical experiment in its reassembly, published in The Fourth Decade, Volume 2, No. 1, November 1994
  45. CE 1981 (opening page of exhibit) (Autopsy Report - Lee Harvey Oswald) (24H 7)
  46. 2H 239 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  47. 2H 240 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  48. 7H 531 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  49. 2H 234 (Buell Wesley Frazier)
  50. CE 361 (Diagram showing the Texas School Book Depository and the immediate area with relation to the parking lot used by employees)
  51. 6H 376 (Jack Edwin Dougherty)
  52. 6H 377 (Jack Edwin Dougherty)
  53. 6H 381 (Jack Edwin Dougherty)
  54. 6H 328 (William Hoyt Shelley)
  55. 2H 247-248 (Mrs Linnie Mae Randle)
  56. 2H 249-250 (Mrs Linnie Mae Randle)
  57. 3H 395 (SA Robert A Frazier, FBI Laboratory, Washington, DC)
  58. Carried out using a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle identical to CE 139 and a large paper bag made as closely as possible to CE 142/626. Practical demonstration given at the meeting of the national British research group Dealey Plaza UK at Sutton Coldfield, UK on 11th February 1996.
  59. FBI Report (FBI File No. PC-78243 BX), page 4; copy held at Dallas Municipal Archives and Records Center, Dallas
  60. 4H 89 (SA James C Cadigan)
  61. As 59 above
  62. 4H 91 (SA James C Cadigan)
  63. 4H 93 (SA James C Cadigan) also CE 2009, page 3 of exhibit (FBI report dated December 2, 1963, of interview of Buell Wesley Frazier at Irving, Tex.) (24H 409)
  64. 4H 97 (SA James C Cadigan)
  65. As 59 above
  66. CE 2974 (Letter dated August 20, 1964, from FBI to Commission, concerning certain information regarding assassination rifle) 26H 455
  67. 1H 14, also 1H 93-94, 5H 597-598 (Mrs Marina Oswald) 67 As 60 above
  68. 6H 356-363 (Troy Eugene West)
  69. 6H 361 (Troy Eugene West)
  70. Ibid.
  71. 6H 360 (Troy Eugene West)
  72. 6H 357 (Troy Eugene West)
  73. 10H 293 (Mrs Arthur Carl Johnson)
  74. 10H 297 (Mrs Arthur Carl Johnson)
  75. 10H 302 (Arthur Carl Johnson). See also Robert S Groden: The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, published by Penguin Studio Books, 1995; page 97, on which the photograph at top left shows the four adjacent windows from the outside.
  76. John R Woods II: J.F.K. Assassination Photographs: A Comprehensive Listing, self- published, 1993; pages 108-109. See also Daniel photographs 1-34 and 1-36 which show Mrs Johnson making the bed in Oswald's room and also show a major part of the wall in which the windows were located and the curtains hung from what appears to be one long curtain rod.
  77. Howard Roffman: Presumed Guilty, published by A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1976; page 160.
  78. Woods - see note 76 above.
  79. ibid; page 10.
  80. Basic information supplied by The Collector's Archive, Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada.
  81. See note 33 above.
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Acknowledgements

I would acknowledge the help so willingly given to me by fellow researchers, particularly Melanie Swift, Chris Mills, Malcolm Blunt and Russell Kent (members of Dealey Plaza UK) and Dr Jerry Rose (The Fourth Decade). I would also commend the research of Kathy Mulligan (Tucson, AR) and especially her self-published work The Perplexing Curtain Rods (1993). I am also grateful for expressions of support and encouragement from Harrison Edward Livingstone.

I am particularly grateful to Dr Rose for allowing me the opportunity to present the first version of this paper before the First Annual Conference of the Fourth Decade at Fredonia, NY on Sunday 21st July 1996 and to Dr. George Michael Evica and Debra Conway for giving me the opportunity to present it in an abbreviated form at the November in Dallas conference (JFK-Lancer) in Dallas, TX on Thursday 21st November 1996.

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